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Card skimming operations prevented millions in fraud loss last year, Secret Service says

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement nationwide cracked down on credit card skimming devices in 2025. Last year, in total, law enforcement visited more than 9,000 businesses and removed 411 illegal skimming ...
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Secret Service agents bust credit card skimmers at South Florida gas stations, stores — $10.4M in fraud losses stopped. What should you look out for?

Thanks to credit card skimmers, stealing money and personal information from innocent victims is easier than ever. “It’s not like in the past where they go in and try robbing a bank,” Rafael Barros, ...
The Baltimore Sun

Secret Service busts card skimming rings in 2025 crackdown, prevents $400M in fraud

The Secret Service says it partnered with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in operations across the country that curbed more than $400 million in fraud from card skimming operations ...

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11Alive

‘This Is Organized Crime’: Federal sweep targets SNAP skimming in Georgia

ATLANTA — As SNAP benefit theft continues to disrupt the lives of Georgians dependent on food assistance, the U.S. Secret Service spread out across metro Atlanta Thursday, conducting a special ...